Bending Toward Justice
Rejecting the “race riot” myth means facing the ugly truth
By Sally Greene Thursday, July 16, 2026
They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacy by Lauren Collins
Verse From the Abyss
How a Jewish poet rebuilt his mother tongue in the wake of the Holocaust
By Piotr Florczyk Thursday, July 9, 2026
Paul Celan: A Life by Anna Arno, translated by Soren Gauger
Where Are We?
Finding our bearings has never been so risky
By Peter Turchi Monday, June 29, 2026
Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World By Katherine Dunn
Blood—and Beauty—at the Root
Fifty years ago, Alex Haley’s landmark novel changed the way many Americans thought about race
By Brandon Tensley Monday, June 15, 2026
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World by Lucas L. Johnson II
In Defense of Difficult Reading
The tomes of the past cultivate the lost art of sustained attention
By Todd Shy Friday, June 5, 2026
What’s So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) Naomi Kanakia
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 1, 2026
How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University By Theo Baker
Things Fall Apart
A meditation on entropy, obsolescence, and death
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, June 1, 2026
How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information By Thomas S. Mullaney
Into the Wilds
The tangled terrain of untrammeled lands
By Miranda Weiss Monday, June 1, 2026
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness By Cal Flyn
The Painter Time Forgot
An overdue reckoning of an artist’s volcanic genius
By Rebecca Bedell Monday, June 1, 2026
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World By Victoria Johnson
Canonical Contempt
Even in the 18th century, Edward Gibbon’s misogyny set him apart
By Michael O'Donnell Monday, June 1, 2026
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon: A Modern Biography By Martha Saxton
The Doctor’s Discontents
A harshly critical new biography of the father of psychotherapy
By Mark Edmundson Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews
It’s Complicated
Unraveling the mystery of why people act as they do
By Michael Shermer Monday, June 5, 2017
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worstby Robert M. Sapolsky
Waking From the Dream
Most Americans assume society is more egalitarian than it is
By Nancy Isenberg Monday, June 5, 2017
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Dieby Keith Payne
Not by Taste Alone
The flavor of food is produced by all of the senses
By Tim Carman Monday, June 5, 2017
Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eatingby Charles Spence
England, My England
The poet whose bucolic lyrics defined a generation
By Jan Morris Monday, June 5, 2017
Housman Country: Into the Heart of Englandby Peter Parker
Back From Oblivion
A writer who refused to live in a world robbed of meaning
By Dana Gioia Monday, June 5, 2017
The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presenceby John T. Irwin
Broken Bodies, Broken Forms
What relation does art bear to suffering?
By Roy Scranton Monday, June 5, 2017
Draw Your Weaponsby Sarah Sentilles
“I Will Die a Russian”
A marriage of convenience that yielded an intelligence bonanza
By Sara Mansfield Taber Monday, June 5, 2017
Spies in the Family by Eva Dillon
Orator-in-Chief
President Obama’s public remarks revealed his unshakable faith in the unity of the American people
By James Santel Friday, April 28, 2017
We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obamaedited by E.J. Dionne Jr. and Joy-Ann Reid
More Than Human
The dawn of a technologically enhanced super-species is upon us
By Michael Shermer Monday, March 6, 2017
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
